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Could Your PKI Deployment Affect Your Organization’s Cybersecurity?
Scott Carter
Wed, 11/21/2018 – 16:03
One of the questions asked in the survey is “How would you describe how your organization’s enterprise PKI is deployed?” T… Continue reading Could Your PKI Deployment Affect Your Organization’s Cybersecurity?
HTTP vs HTTPS: Will the World Follow Google?
Scott Carter
Mon, 08/20/2018 – 12:53
Why HTTPS?
Data sent via the HTTPS protocol is encrypted to keep it secure from commercial and private hackers. It can’t be modified or corrupted while in transit and it… Continue reading HTTP vs HTTPS: Will the World Follow Google?
The Pains of Encryption Key Management: Why Manual Processes Are So Hard
Scott Carter
Thu, 08/16/2018 – 18:53
In its 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study, Thales along with Venafi and Geobridge sponsored Ponemon Institute to survey 5,252 IT and securit… Continue reading The Pains of Encryption Key Management: Why Manual Processes Are So Hard
The Internet of Things: Getting Smarter about Securing Smart Technologies
Scott Carter
Wed, 08/15/2018 – 19:13
Machine identities are not being secured in the same way as human identities online, resulting in a lack of encryption across networks, amon… Continue reading The Internet of Things: Getting Smarter about Securing Smart Technologies
How to Check for Revoked Certificates
Scott Carter
Tue, 07/31/2018 – 12:33
Many methods exist for publishing and querying these lists but few of them are widely used. This is largely because the methods are slow, prone to failure or are just plain com… Continue reading How to Check for Revoked Certificates
Walking through the expo hall at Black Hat Europe was uplifting – if the vendor booths were to be believed, APT’s can be stopped in their tracks, Ransomware protection can be guaranteed, and phishing can become a term applied to lake activities again. All it requires is buying this tool! It made me wonder why people…
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In Part 1 of “Tales of the Black Hat NOC: The Stages of Security Adolescence,” I discussed the maturation process of the Black Hat NOC, and security strategies in general. In the blog post below – you can see the adjustments we made and additional steps we took towards optimizing our NOC at Black Hat. …
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Maturity is often spoken of in the security community as a binary value – “Customer X is mature,” “Customer Y is immature…” This notion was not dispelled at Black Hat where one vendor after another claimed, “Evolve your security. Buy our product and stop breaches today!” But we know that maturity is not binary, and neither is…
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We are approaching the end of Black Hat‘s training days. It’s an interesting time when the expo floor still sits quiet, but the Black Hat network is as noisy as ever – as seen by the RSA volunteers working inside the Black Hat NOC. The majority of this noise is being generated by teachers and students, demonstrating…
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With the start of Black Hat 2016 merely a day away, white, black, and grey hats from around the world are whetting their appetites – eagerly waiting to show off and consume the fruit of an entire year’s research. Whether for education, research, bragging rights, or mal-intent, the Black Hat network will host anything from basic brute force attacks to…
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